CVE-2016-1956

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Published 2016-03-13 · Modified 2026-05-06

CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2

7.1

VIR risk

6.5

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 on Linux, when an Intel video driver is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or stack memory corruption) by triggering use of a WebGL shader.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1956

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-19.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1956.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	sid	fixed	`45.0-1`
debian	bookworm	fixed	`45.0esr-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`45.0esr-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`45.0esr-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`45.0esr-1`
suse	42.1	affected
suse	13.1	affected
suse	13.2	affected
linux-kernel		not-affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
mozilla	firefox	`{"endIncluding":"44.0.2"}`
novell	suse_package_hub_for_suse_linux_enterprise	`12`

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.